S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Series Megathread: The Zone will stop the Russians

[Shadower1337]

[QUOTE=Jamie1992GSC;45417933]It's always recommended Vanilla for a first playthrough. Which of the 3?

[editline]17th July 2014[/editline]

Although graphics mods and purely bugfix mods are always good aslong as they don't change gameplay. DO NOT touch Complete. It creates more problems than it fixes and turns master mode to easy mode.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I'm not going to touch Complete after hearing how bad it is. I'll most likely just install ZRP.

[IronBar]

[QUOTE=Shadower1337;45417573]Any needed mods for a first playthrough?[/QUOTE]

Compl- jk

Zone Reclamation Project (ZRP) [url]http://www.metacognix.com/stlkrsoc/[/url]

Or just go vanilla.

[Ajaxial]

[QUOTE=Shadower1337;45418022]Yeah, I'm not going to touch Complete after hearing how bad it is. I'll most likely just install ZRP.[/QUOTE]

ZRP is a good choice, mainly just nothing but bugfixes and leaves the vanilla feel as it is.

[Ownederd]

i just figured out that the duty story branch in lost alpha is still completely broken

i gotta restart my game but i didn't get too far so it's not a hassle

[Shadower1337]

I've found two shader mods, but I don't know which is better. Float32, or Shaders Max. Which one is better?

[Cutthecrap]

[QUOTE=Shadower1337;45418550]I've found two shader mods, but I don't know which is better. Float32, or Shaders Max. Which one is better?[/QUOTE]

Use both for maximum shader power

[Muukkis]

[QUOTE=JurajIsNotPirat;45417701]in other words, is there any point to installing anything but the third one?[/QUOTE]

Absolute Nature 3 changes the level geometry in CoP and as such, breaks functionality with some A-Life mods or mods that make changes to the all.spawn and can cause crashes in the last level. Personally I'd just play it safe and go with Absolute Nature 2.

[Loner]

[QUOTE=Shadower1337;45418022]Yeah, I'm not going to touch Complete after hearing how bad it is. I'll most likely just install ZRP.[/QUOTE]

[URL="http://www.moddb.com/mods/photo-realistic-zone-2"]Try mah mod bruh[/URL]

[editline]17th July 2014[/editline]

Here's some pics of it in the works Shadower

[t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/20/19369/XR_3DA_2013-09-26_20-49-23-46.png[/t]
[t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/20/19369/ss_kevin_04-24-13_17-24-19_l01_escape.jpg[/t]

[QUOTE=Muukkis;45418635]Absolute Nature 3 changes the level geometry in CoP and as such, breaks functionality with some A-Life mods or mods that make changes to the all.spawn and can cause crashes in the last level. Personally I'd just play it safe and go with Absolute Nature 2.[/QUOTE]

Or take AN3 lite without spawn changes :v:

[Shadower1337]

[QUOTE=LoNer1;45419394][URL="http://www.moddb.com/mods/photo-realistic-zone-2"]Try mah mod bruh[/URL]

[editline]17th July 2014[/editline]

Here's some pics of it in the works Shadower

[t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/20/19369/XR_3DA_2013-09-26_20-49-23-46.png[/t]
[t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/20/19369/ss_kevin_04-24-13_17-24-19_l01_escape.jpg[/t]

Or take AN3 lite without spawn changes :v:[/QUOTE]
Whats the performance hit?

[Overwatch17]

I've been looking for a new game or game series to play and heard a lot of good things about S.T.A.L.K.E.R.. Should I buy the bundle or just one or two of the games? Should I do it now or wait for a sale?

[Muukkis]

Wait for a sale, the series goes on sale all the times.
Once you get them, play in Release Order (SoC->CS->CoP(->Lost Alpha)).

[Loner]

[QUOTE=Shadower1337;45419432]Whats the performance hit?[/QUOTE]

Without shader package roughly 10 / 15 FPS, depending on the area.
With shader package, expect to get the best out of the game, but you need a pretty beefy PC. I've tested it on this build:

Intel i7-3770k,
16GB RAM,
GTX690,
Solid State Disk with stalker on it,
ASUS Z77 Sabertooth

And It ran at around 100+ without the shaders, 60-80 with shaders, sometimes even dropped to 45-60 :v:

I advice textures only if you don't have a beast PC, wont be much of a hit if you put texture res. to 75%.

[Shadower1337]

[QUOTE=LoNer1;45420741]Without shader package roughly 10 / 15 FPS, depending on the area.
With shader package, expect to get the best out of the game, but you need a pretty beefy PC. I've tested it on this build:

Intel i7-3770k,
16GB RAM,
GTX690,
Solid State Disk with stalker on it,
ASUS Z77 Sabertooth

And It ran at around 100+ without the shaders, 60-80 with shaders, sometimes even dropped to 45-60 :v:

I advice textures only if you don't have a beast PC, wont be much of a hit if you put texture res. to 75%.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I struggle to maintain 60 FPS in a couple areas so I'm not gonna install, sorry.

[Lizzrd]

So uh, if anyone cares (probably one or two of you) survarium's updated again, this time with higher level artifact hunting suits and 7N23 ammo.

[Kingo64]

[QUOTE=Shadower1337;45418550]I've found two shader mods, but I don't know which is better. Float32, or Shaders Max. Which one is better?[/QUOTE]
Shaders MAX actually contains Float32 as a toggleable option. Also using Shaders MAX and turning off all the extra features or using the Float32 setting typically gives you better performance than stock.

[Shadower1337]

[QUOTE=K1ngo64;45423623]Shaders MAX actually contains Float32 as a toggleable option. Also using Shaders MAX and turning off all the extra features or using the Float32 setting typically gives you better performance than stock.[/QUOTE]
Where do I enable Float32?

[Beacon]

Today I went to a shooting range in Vegas

I shot a makarov, an SVD, an M1 garand and an MP5-SD

it was fucking awesome

[editline]18th July 2014[/editline]

the SVD kicks a little, but it's super fucking accurate - I've never really shot before but I got 5/5 headshots with the scope

the makarov is a fucking beast - you think it's a shitty little pistol (as in our favourite series) but it kicks like a fucking mule

the garand is ridiculous, it has massive recoil and the clip ejection is freaking awesome

the MP5-SD is so cool, it's utterly quiet and has such little recoil, it's a beauty to shoot

probably gonna go back and try some more guns at some point before I head home

[editline]18th July 2014[/editline]

also in other news, here is the first gameplay footage of Areal:

[U][media][/U][url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD_nRQf6wls[/url][/media]

(hint: it looks pretty shit)

[Pops]

oh god yes

that looks straight out of fucking chernobyl commando

[nater]

Looks a lot like a server in Garry's Mod. Not that I have high hopes for it, but I'm sure it'll all change.

[Shadower1337]

Where do I look in the PDA to find info about stash locations I've found?

[kiloy]

Ahahahahah that gun viewmodel

[Kingo64]

[QUOTE=Shadower1337;45423877]Where do I enable Float32?[/QUOTE]
In ShaderSettings.txt there should be a setting called ENABLE_FLOAT32 or something like that

[Daemon White]

Why is it that games ignore the ambient light from the sky and go with pitch-black shadows?

[werewolf0020]

That areal video..

What the fuck happened at the end ? did he just try to simulate / fake some sort of "Wow so scary /tension" ?

Its really worse than i tough...

[ThaOneDon]

This is beyond ripoff, they took hand model directly from this:
[url]http://prntscr.com/43t1ac[/url]

*facepalm*

I bet you they lifted every single model from some asset pack they stole/bought from internet.

[DarkZero135]

lol fuck atmosfear 3's bullshit just decides to put a psi storm right in the middle of the pripyat evac section

[NikolaT]

I assume that all of the animations we saw there are place holders. Also probably some of the sounds and particle effects.

Eh, Ill need more convincing than that.

[Ajaxial]

I wish people would stop talking about Areal let that heap of shit die for the love of god. It's worse enough TS takes every passing moment spamming GSC FB page with it's crap as soon as he can.

[DarkZero135]

-snip-

[Judqment8]

[QUOTE=Beacon;45423935]also in other news, here is the first gameplay footage of Areal:

[U][media][/U][url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD_nRQf6wls[/url][/media]

(hint: it looks pretty shit)[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE][I]The [B]first video shown above was made in two weeks[/B]. We hope that the early footage that we've demonstrated, shows you that we're a team that's actively working towards making a great game that we think you'll all enjoy. We hope that you'll help us make Areal a reality and support our Kickstarter![/I]
[/QUOTE]
In other words. "OW MAH GOD WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIEM AND WE HAVEN'T COMPLETED OUR KICKSTARTER YET! WE NEED A GAMEPLAY VID NAO!"

The video looked shit, there was nothing pretty about it :v: